Switch to Safer #5: Hand Soap and Hand Purifiers

Hand Cleaners

Hand Purifier and Foaming Hand Soap

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Your kid touches something on the ground. Ew. So, you instinctively reach for your hand soap if you’re at home or your hand sanitizer if you’re out and about. So do I. But, what if that hand soap or hand sanitizer is actually more dangerous than whatever was on the ground?

Hand Soap:

What to avoid: Softsoap

Fragrance is a human immune toxicant / allergen. It can be VERY toxic and dangerous.

DMDM Hydantoin has a potential link to cancer and contamination. It is also a formaldehyde releaser, which means as it releases formaldehyde as it breaks down.

Methylisothiazolinone is toxic to the nervous system.

All of the above ingredients are commonly found in Softsoft products and rate a 7-8 on the Skin Deep Scale (which ranges from 1-10 with 1 being very clean and safe to use and 10 being really, really bad).

It ingredients also includes Clove, Lemon, Cinnamon Bark, and Rosemary Essential Oils. All of which are in Young Living’s vitality line, so they are safe to ingest. (Technically, you could eat the soap!)

Hand Purifiers

What to avoid:

They use fragrances – which is always filled with chemicals.

They use dangerous chemicals/toxins to make the alcohol non-alcoholic.

They contain Triclosan. According to the Mayo Clinic, Triclosan may “alter hormone regulation in animals, might contribute to the development of anitbiotic-resistent germs” and “might be harmful to the immune system.” Scary, right?

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